guardianship
1guardianship — I noun adoption, auspices, care, charge, control, custody, patronage, preservation, protection, protectorship, safekeeping, trust II index administration, adoption (affiliation), auspices, bo …
2Guardianship — Guard i*an*ship, n. The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch. [1913 Webster] …
3guardianship — 1550s, from GUARDIAN (Cf. guardian) + SHIP (Cf. ship) …
4guardianship — [[t]gɑ͟ː(r)diənʃɪp[/t]] N UNCOUNT: usu with poss Guardianship is the position of being a guardian. ...depriving mothers of the guardianship of their children …
5guardianship — noun The office or position of one acting as a guardian or conservator, especially in a legal capacity. Forbidden to you are your mothers and your daughters and your sisters and your paternal aunts and your maternal aunts and brothers daughters… …
6guardianship — guard•i•an•ship [[t]ˈgɑr di ənˌʃɪp[/t]] n. 1) the position and responsibilities of a guardian, esp. toward a ward 2) care; responsibility; charge: a museum that is under the guardianship of trustees[/ex] • Etymology: 1545–55 …
7guardianship — The office, duty, or authority of a guardian. Also the relation subsisting between guardian and ward. A legal arrangement under which one person (a guardian) has the legal right and duty to care for another (the ward) and his or her property. A… …
8guardianship — The office, duty, or authority of a guardian. Also the relation subsisting between guardian and ward. A legal arrangement under which one person (a guardian) has the legal right and duty to care for another (the ward) and his or her property. A… …
9guardianship — guardian ► NOUN 1) a defender, protector, or keeper. 2) a person legally responsible for someone unable to manage their own affairs, especially a child whose parents have died. DERIVATIVES guardianship noun. ORIGIN Old French garden …
10Guardianship, in Civil Jurisprudence — • A person intrusted by law with the interests of another whose youth, inexperience, mental weakness or feebleness of will, disqualifies him from acting for himself in the ordinary affairs of life, and who is known as the ward Catholic… …
